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The form is well distinguished by its stout stem, large and 
strongly marked leaves, and its spikes of large and numerous fruit. 
San Diego County, California. S. B. & W. F. Parish. 
ZANNICHELLIA PALUSTRIS, L.—The distinctions founded 
upon the presence or absence of peduncles and pedicels (such a 
4. pedunculata, Reich., Z. palustris, L. var. pedicellata, J. Gay, 
_vVar. MurIcaATA.—Fruit largely or entirely muricate, some- 
times armed with distinct and numerous teeth. _ 
Texas, J. Reverchon. San Diego Co. Cal., Parish. 
The aspect of this plant is so unlike that ofthe type,that I should 
eall it a new species if any distinctive specific characters could be 
clearly perceived. It is a good sub-species. 
Florida, A. H. Curtiss. Distributed as No. 2705. 
Natas FLExruis, Rostk. and Schmidt—A polymorphous 
“re found throughout N, America and Europe, and probably 
sia. 
The teeth on the margins of the leaves are one-celled ; on 
in by a basal 
prominence of several cells. This species occurs in forms with 
a ; 
f shy and densely leaved and branched, as_well as 
*"ms a foot or more high and quite slender. The following 1s 
ked as a sub- 
“. Var. ropusra.—Stem stout, few-leaved, sparsely branching, 
“Ongated : leaves linear, 1}-2mm. broad and 10 to lomm. long, 
